I think we’re seeing direct results from Title IX here.

No medal, but just a shoutout to my home town girl Paige Railey who came in 10th sailing a laser radial.

You forgot about Kim Rhode. She did this:

You can thank lack of competition due to worldwide sexism for that. Western women benefit, not only from the impoverishment of other nations(as men do) but the fact that most nations hardly spend any money or time developing women’s sports.

Easier for the women. Loads of countries in the world don’t support women athletes properly so they’re competing against a shallower talent pool.

The US women’s basketball and water polo teams deserve mentions. The basketball team was signing autographs for the teams they beat. Plus, Gwen Jorgenson won the women’s tri by a good margin. She lapped other runners on her run into the finish! It may be the first US medal in triathlon.

I’d switch in a second if there were something locally that I could follow. I’m talking top level club shit. Otherwise it’s too much effort to manufacture interest in something that happens around the world. But it’s an entertaining game, and I’d know I’d get into it if given a chance.

Even LeDecky’s times (3:56 in the 400m setting a world record) isn’t able to compete with the male athletes (3:49 was required to make the men’s 400m final).

The worst man in the 400m final beat Ledecky by more (7 seconds) than LeDecky beat the field of women (5 seconds). When the most dominant female swimmer ever…

He didn’t build the 76ers. He was just hired to clean up Hinke’s toxic spill. You have to give him a minute before you judge his work there.

I know! Fucking African teams CRUSHED it this year like they do every year didn’t they?!?

I think these two cases are different. The underlying issue with Caster is that there’s speculation she’s intersex with internal testes, more male than female in the opinion of quite a few of her competitors. And since we segregate most sports by gender, she shouldn’t be allowed to compete with some form of inhibitor.

It gets even more confusing if you extrapolate to the end of the argument: people are entitled to chose their gender, should they therefore be allowed to chose the gender of their athletic competition?

The fundamental difference is that we segregate our sports by sex to allow equal competition. Just like we segregate boxing and wrestling by weight. Anyone is allow to move up to a higher class freely, but you can’t choose to compete at a lower one unless you can meet the standard.

Because their are classifications in place specifically to cancel this particular advantage. Men have an advantage over women in all sports, so to allow women to compete, a new class (female) was created. If men and women competed together, no woman would ever make it to the podium. For example, Gold Medal winning…

There’s no height distinction in sports, so tossing out Phelps and Bolt doesn’t really work.

The issue here is that Semenya’s testosterone levels are beyond that 10 nmol/L...which is already significantly beyond what the “average” woman’s levels are, even a woman with PCOS. Semenya also had internal testes and was (if I remember correctly) XY. She was raised female based on her external genitalia. Her…

I’ve been following this story for years and I still honestly don’t know what to think.
On the one hand, I think the harassment, humiliation and abuse she’s been subjected to is awful, but at the same time, if intersex athletes are allowed to compete as women, they would have an unequivocal advantage over XX women,…

It's definitely about the testosterone. When the IAAF introduced its "eligibility rules for females with hyperandrogenism" in April 2011, the rule allowed still allowed for testosterone above the normal range for females, which is .5-3 nanomoles per liter. The IAAF allowed up to 10 nmol/L, and Semenya still had to go…

I think you’re missing the crux of the debate, which is whether Caster should actually be “considered” a woman or not. These athletic committees are left with the difficult task of trying to determine what physiologically makes someone a woman and what doesn’t. Should a person with male sex organs producing…

So why not let men compete with women?